Mostn girls in my school find me attractive because I give out origami to them
No kidding, I gave a girl a simple traditional butterfly and she goes and tells her friends and they tell their friends, and so on; and so on....
And no i have girls asking me to make them easy origami and some of them are actually pretty..you know what I mean
I know exactly what you mean unfortunately it takes a little more than a simple butterfly...people expect me to have something complex. I did once teach Lang's turtle (no shell pattern) to a girl, and it turned out pretty good.
Nobody outright calls me a geek or a nerd (never heard of boffin before), its just kinda an understood fact.
I didn't really see much bad in the article either, but I dont like how he only really focuses on Kamiya's dragons. True, they are amazing, but one cant just forget his great (and fun to fold) dinosaurs and animals either!
I left the following feedback to the article. "Origami is not just for 'geeks' as you say. Origami is just like any other art. In fact much of today's origami can be considered paper sculptures. It takes drive, and a great deal of creativity to create a model. I suggest you try it before you insult it and an entire community of folders."
I could have gone on but it only gave me so many letters. I wanted to tell him that his prehistory was completely inaccurate. Origami stretches way back beyond britain in the 60's it is a japanese art and pretty old. He should have titled it something like origami's rise to fame instead of prehistory because it did make the history books before the 60's. I hate close minded people like that, that because it is a stimulating art and we have formed a community now we are all a bunch of weird groupies or some kind of cult.
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Wow, that article was pretty bad. Although there's nothing wrong with being a geek, i don't like how they presented people who do origami and think it seems like they didn't really know what they were talking about and should have done more research.
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Razzmatazz wrote:Mostn girls in my school find me attractive because I give out origami to them
No kidding, I gave a girl a simple traditional butterfly and she goes and tells her friends and they tell their friends, and so on; and so on....
And no i have girls asking me to make them easy origami and some of them are actually pretty..you know what I mean
Exactly! This happens all the time to me! Most guys/chicks at my school know that I do origami, and not a single person (to my knowledge) thinks I'm a nerd for it. And to be honest, if they did, I wouldn't give a ****
I wouldn't consider that article offensive to origamists. Origami IS a hip hobby for math geeks. With all the complex formulas and equations and what not, how could they resist grabbing a piece of the action? That link seems to be the "geek" section of the Times website (pay attention to the ads), so obviously they are trying to grab the attention of geeks in particular. That's a good thing, because we can never have too many math geeks folding origami (although it can be quite annoying if they win all the folding challenges).
Right now, I can see origami as having two distinct categories. One is the "math geek" kind of origami that uses complex mathematical equations and formulas, such as the works of Robert Lang and Brain Chan. The other kind is the "artist" kind of origami, where the folder focuses not on complexity, but the overall aesthetic value of the model, relying on sculpting and gentle curves, such as the works of Joseph Wu and Michael Laffosse. So, it can be said that origami is for both genuine artists and math...um...people.
It's kind of different in my school. Most of the smartest people in my school are usually popular and are very athletic. In fact, they're kind of over-achieving freaks. The guy who keeps getting first place doesn't even wear glasses. That's nothing like the stereotype I keep seeing on your American sitcoms and cartoons.
Well, you can't always believe everything you see on your average American sitcom . I don't even watch any, 'cause they just aren't that funny. Some guys I know are popular because they're nerdy
unfortunately it takes a little more than a simple butterfly...people expect me to have something complex. I did once teach Lang's turtle (no shell pattern) to a girl, and it turned out pretty good.
